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Still Life Painting of a Coffee Pot
Dec 12, 2018
In this blog post I'm continuing with a series of still life paintings, showing how my process evolves incrementally over time. The subject this time is an Italian coffee pot....
Still Life Painting in the Studio
Dec 8, 2018
Still life projects are a great way to develop techniques and observation skills. In this blog post I walk step by step through a recent work....
Painting a Horse at Ayrshire Farm
Jan 11, 2017
Shire Horse Charcoal Sketch (WIP). 14x20, charcoal on paper. 2017 As I've done for the past few years, I decided to start the year with an animal painting. I've had a horse that I saw at Ayrshire Farm in VA in my mind for a while and thought this might be a good time to see what I could do with him....
Charcoal Studies - Working Through Ideas Part I
Apr 12, 2016
Charcoal Sketches on paper (full sheet). 2016 Before investing a lot of time, effort and materials in a painting, I find it's always helpful to first work though my idea on paper. Simple studies like these help me to test out the compositions and make sure they have a good chance of working. I can m...
David and Max in progress
Mar 7, 2016
David and Max (WIP). 26x24, oil on linen. 2016 This is a portrait that I've been working on for the past three months. It's still in progress, but near enough to completion that I feel OK about showing it. The painting is based on a photo taken by Smiley's Studio in Fort Worth, Texas, and us...
Bunny in Progress
Dec 22, 2015
Bunny (WIP). 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2015. It's been a while since I finished any new work so I jumped the gun and posted this one before completing it. This is done from the customer's own photograph. This first layer is painted directly over a (dried) raw umber block in and was done in one sess...